Patents by Inventor Giuseppe Bianca

Giuseppe Bianca has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 10374347
    Abstract: An electrical connector contact has a body for receiving a conductor and for receiving a male pin contact. A spring is configured for engaging the pin contact and includes a plurality of spring fingers positioned for forming a bore with the spring fingers bent radially inwardly and configured for securing a pin in engagement with the body. A sleeve is configured for engaging the body to overlie the spring. Indentations are formed in the body at discrete positions around the body and extend radially inwardly into the pin section. The spring includes tongues extending radially inwardly and configured for extending into the indentations for securing the spring with the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: Carlisle Interconnect Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Giuseppe Bianca, Leonid Foshansky
  • Publication number: 20180205167
    Abstract: An electrical connector contact has a body for receiving a conductor and for receiving a male pin contact. A spring is configured for engaging the pin contact and includes a plurality of spring fingers positioned for forming a bore with the spring fingers bent radially inwardly and configured for securing a pin in engagement with the body. A sleeve is configured for engaging the body to overlie the spring. Indentations are formed in the body at discrete positions around the body and extend radially inwardly into the pin section. The spring includes tongues extending radially inwardly and configured for extending into the indentations for securing the spring with the body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2018
    Publication date: July 19, 2018
    Inventors: Giuseppe Bianca, Leonid Foshansky
  • Patent number: 10003152
    Abstract: A reverse-gender pin contact for use with a connector having a high density layout, includes a body having a hollow first portion extending along an axis for receiving a conductor. The first portion extends along the axis to a neck, the neck extending along the axis to an engaging end for insertion inside a mating socket contact. A retention feature extends from the neck transverse to the axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Giuseppe Bianca, Alex Robert Rengifo
  • Patent number: 9917390
    Abstract: An electrical connector contact has a body for receiving a conductor and for receiving a male pin contact. A spring is configured for engaging the pin contact and includes a plurality of spring fingers positioned for forming a bore with the spring fingers bent radially inwardly and configured for securing a pin in engagement with the body. A sleeve is configured for engaging the body to overlie the spring. Indentations are formed in the body at discrete positions around the body and extend radially inwardly into the pin section. The spring includes tongues extending radially inwardly and configured for extending into the indentations for securing the spring with the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Inventors: Giuseppe Bianca, Leonid Foshansky
  • Patent number: 9331400
    Abstract: A male contact assembly includes a contact body having a mating end and a wire end opposite the mating end. The wire end has a wire barrel configured to receive and be terminated to a wire conductor. The male contact assembly includes a spring body having a front end and a rear end. The rear end is coupled to the mating end of the contact body such that the rear end of the spring body and the mating end of the contact body are coaxially aligned for a mating length. The front end of the spring body includes a male connector comprising at least one compliant beam. The at least one compliant beam of the male connector is resiliently deflected when connected to an external female connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: TYCO ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Giuseppe Bianca, Mohamed Ali, Alex Rengifo
  • Publication number: 20160111805
    Abstract: A system for securing one or more electrical contacts within an electrical component includes a main housing defining a contact-retaining chamber, a base fixed within the contact-retaining chamber, a resilient retainer supported on the base and positioned around at least a portion of the one or more electrical contacts, a compressor within the contact-retaining chamber, wherein the resilient retainer is positioned between the base and the compressor, and a moveable actuator configured to be moved into a retaining position in which a retaining force is exerted into the compressor. The retaining force is translated into the resilient retainer to securely retain the electrical contact(s) within the electrical component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2014
    Publication date: April 21, 2016
    Inventors: Giuseppe Bianca, Mohamed Abrahim Ali
  • Patent number: 9300071
    Abstract: A system for securing one or more electrical contacts within an electrical component includes a main housing defining a contact-retaining chamber, a base fixed within the contact-retaining chamber, a resilient retainer supported on the base and positioned around at least a portion of the one or more electrical contacts, a compressor within the contact-retaining chamber, wherein the resilient retainer is positioned between the base and the compressor, and a moveable actuator configured to be moved into a retaining position in which a retaining force is exerted into the compressor. The retaining force is translated into the resilient retainer to securely retain the electrical contact(s) within the electrical component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: TYCO ELECTRONICS SERVICES GmbH
    Inventors: Giuseppe Bianca, Mohamed Abrahim Ali
  • Patent number: 9118138
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes a shell with a chamber and an insert assembly received in the chamber. The insert assembly has cavities therethrough that are configured to receive contacts. The contacts are configured for electrical connection to mating contacts of a mating connector. The insert assembly has resilient latches extending from an outer periphery of the insert assembly that engage the shell to hold the insert assembly in the chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2015
    Assignee: TYCO ELECTRONICS SERVICES GmbH
    Inventor: Giuseppe Bianca
  • Patent number: 8851940
    Abstract: A system and method is provided for securing a spring body against a socket body, thereby reducing movement of the spring body during periods of vibration. Preferred embodiments of the present invention operate in accordance with a socket body that includes at least a proximal end, a spring body that includes at least a distal end, and a sleeve. In one embodiment of the present invention, the distal end of the spring body is configured to be placed over the proximal end of the socket body, and the sleeve is configured to be placed over the distal end of the spring body. The sleeve preferably includes an inner circumference that is sized to creating a frictional engagement between an inner surface of the sleeve and an outer surface of the spring body, and between an inner surface of the spring body and an outer surface of the socket body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Deutsch Engineered Connecting Devices, Inc.
    Inventors: James P. Friedhof, Alex Robert Rengifo, Giuseppe Bianca
  • Publication number: 20140017960
    Abstract: A system and method is provided for securing a spring body against a socket body, thereby reducing movement of the spring body during periods of vibration. Preferred embodiments of the present invention operate in accordance with a socket body that includes at least a proximal end, a spring body that includes at least a distal end, and a sleeve. In one embodiment of the present invention, the distal end of the spring body is configured to be placed over the proximal end of the socket body, and the sleeve is configured to be placed over the distal end of the spring body. The sleeve preferably includes an inner circumference that is sized to creating a frictional engagement between an inner surface of the sleeve and an outer surface of the spring body, and between an inner surface of the spring body and an outer surface of the socket body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2012
    Publication date: January 16, 2014
    Inventors: James P. Friedhof, Alex Robert Rengifo, Giuseppe Bianca
  • Patent number: 6202853
    Abstract: A new continuous carrier for surface mount or other electrical or mechanical parts, and a method of fabricating same, formed by molding one or a pair of continuous flexible film strips to a side or sides of a series of desired electrical or mechanical components such that the components are attached to the single strip or filament or suspended between the film strips or filaments. Following the initial molding step, the components, while still supported by the film strips or filament, are subjected to secondary processing Examples are: providing electrically-conductive coatings on the component throughout or selectively, providing electrically-conductive traces on the moldings, or molding in a second molding stage a part of a different composition or shape to the initial molded part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2001
    Assignee: AutoSplice Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Giuseppe Bianca, Robert M. Bogursky
  • Patent number: 6190214
    Abstract: A novel press-fit electrically-conductive contact member, as, for example, an electrically-conductive metal pin, characterized by a conforming section which has an elastically-deformable region which acts as a spring and which is adapted to engage a substrate hole in a press-fitting relationship. The conforming section comprises opposed beam members configured to accommodate a considerably larger hole tolerance yet still provide sufficient retention force to stabilize the pin during a soldering process that such substrates may typically undergo. The beam cross-sections are configured to allow them to occupy a side-by-side position. Contact members with the conforming section can be manufactured by a wire-forming process in which end-to-end connected pins are formed as a continuous strip needing no excess material for carrying the pins, nor are any air gaps formed between the pins, and thus the finished continuous strip of pins can be wound up on a reel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2001
    Assignee: Autosplice Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Giuseppe Bianca, Robert M. Bogursky
  • Patent number: 6052895
    Abstract: A novel press-fit electrically-conductive contact member, as, for example, an electrically-conductive metal pin, characterized by a conforming section which has an elastically-deformable region which acts as a spring and which is adapted to engage a substrate hole in a press-fitting relationship. The conforming section comprises opposed beam members configured to accommodate a considerably larger hole tolerance yet still provide sufficient retention force to stabilize the pin during a soldering process that such substrates may typically undergo. The beam cross-sections are configured to allow them to occupy a side-by-side position. Contact members with the conforming section can be manufactured by a wire-forming process in which end-to-end connected pins are formed as a continuous strip needing no excess material for carrying the pins, nor are any air gaps formed between the pins, and thus the finished continuous strip of pins can be wound up on a reel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2000
    Assignee: Auto Splice Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Giuseppe Bianca, Robert M. Bogursky
  • Patent number: 6051781
    Abstract: A unitary metal clip is stamped from a flat strip of sheet metal which is bent to provide two pairs of generally V-shaped fingers which extend upwardly from a base and have opposing apexes. An L-shaped arm also extends upwardly from the base between the pairs of fingers and has a horizontal pick-up tab that is located at a height above the opposing apexes of the fingers. A pneumatic head of an automatic pick and place machine grabs the pick-up tab and removes the clip from a pocket of a supply tape unrolled from a reel. The base of the clip is positioned on a solder pad of a PC board before solder re-flow. The lower edge of the sidewall of an EMI shield may be pressed down to bend the pick-up tab downwardly and squeeze the sidewall between the apexes of the fingers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2000
    Assignee: Autosplice, Inc.
    Inventors: Giuseppe Bianca, Joseph J. Lynch, Timothy Stephany, Robert M. Bogursky
  • Patent number: 6042429
    Abstract: A novel press-fit pin or socket member, as, for example, an electrically-conductive metal pin, characterized by a knurl section which has spaced bumps and adjacent grooves perimetrically and longitudinally spaced from one another and which is adapted to engage a substrate hole in a press-fitting relationship. Pin or socket members with the knurl section can be manufactured by a wire-forming process in which end-to-end connected pins are formed as a continuous strip needing no excess material for carrying the pins, nor are any air gaps formed between the pins, and thus the finished continuous strip of pins can be wound up on a reel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2000
    Assignee: Autosplice Systems Inc.
    Inventors: Giuseppe Bianca, Robert M. Bogursky
  • Patent number: 5967365
    Abstract: A feeder for a pick and place machine used in connection with the mounting of small discrete parts such as electrical and mechanical components comprises a frame and mechanisms connected to the frame for advancing a carrier tape product from a supply reel. The carrier tape product preferably includes a pair of spaced apart continuous parallel carrier tapes having a series of longitudinally spaced parts with opposite sides molded over adjacent inner side edges of corresponding ones of the carrier tapes so that each part bridges the two carrier tapes. The feeder further comprises a separation station mounted to the frame for receiving the carrier tape from the supply reel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 19, 1999
    Assignee: Autosplice Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert M. Bogursky, Giuseppe Bianca, Douglas Green, John Hover, Richard Howe, Scott Proctor
  • Patent number: 5967841
    Abstract: A continuous electrical connector or component part of plastic or metal manufactured by injection molding of axial segments in sequence. A novel in-line interlocking structure is provided for interlocking adjacent segments. The interlocking structure comprises overmolded end units wherein the next overmolded part fills in a hole or recess left in the previous molded part. Electrical or mechanical parts may, if desired, be simultaneously incorporated in the units of each segment during the molding process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 19, 1999
    Assignee: Auto Splice Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Giuseppe Bianca, Robert M. Bogursky
  • Patent number: 5957725
    Abstract: A continuous electrical connector or component part of plastic or metal manufactured by injection molding of axial segments in sequence. A novel in-line interlocking structure is provided for interlocking adjacent segments. The interlocking structure comprises overmolded end units wherein the next overmolded part fills in a hole or recess left in the previous molded part. Electrical or mechanical parts may, if desired, be simultaneously incorporated in the units of each segment during the molding process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 28, 1999
    Assignee: Auto Splice Systems Inc.
    Inventors: Giuseppe Bianca, Robert M. Bogursky
  • Patent number: 5957739
    Abstract: A continuous stamping of plated metal components, with carrier links between their ends, for surface mount soldering. A strip of components is formed which can be individually easily separated at severance regions between the adjacent components. The severance regions are located in the carrier links between the components. Preferably, the carrier links are offset upwardly from a solderable surface (20) of the components, or alternatively may be coplanar with such surface (FIG. 17). The carrier regions (21) that remain after severance may also serve as an overtravel stop during insertion of the component into a support. In a two-row embodiment (FIG. 10), the carrier regions (50, 52) are formed to be asymmetrical in order to increase spacing between pins. Advantages include: less material required, lower cost for selective plating, adjustable pin length in the die, flat stamping, tip plating for better electrical contact, and scrapless end product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 28, 1999
    Assignee: Autosplice Systems Inc.
    Inventors: Giuseppe Bianca, Robert M. Bogursky
  • Patent number: 5938996
    Abstract: A new continuous carrier for surface mount or other electrical or mechanical parts, and a method of fabricating same, formed by molding one or a pair of continuous flexible film strips to a side or sides of a series of desired electrical or mechanical components such that the components are attached to the single strip or filament or suspended between the film strips or filaments. The film strips may be provided with sprocket holes or other equivalent structure for advancing the film strips during the molding process and for reeling up the resultant assembly onto a reel for sale or distribution to a PCB assembler. The latter places the reel of molded parts onto a conventional feeding device. The parts are then separated from the supporting strips or filament, picked-up by a pick-and-place device and placed onto the PCB in the normal manner. The filament or strip may be constituted of plastic, paper or metal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 17, 1999
    Assignee: Autosplice Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Giuseppe Bianca, Robert M. Bogursky